Newt Gingrich Will Alienate One Demographic at a Time Until the Primaries

America’s next president, Newt Gingrich, has some poorly worded thoughts to share on the subject of the Middle East. “Remember there was no Palestine as a state,” the 1,000-year-old child said during an interview with the Jewish Channel. “It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community.” Palestinians, who are no more “invented” than people from any other culture, nation, or group that now exists but once did not (i.e., everyone), are not likely to take kindly to Gingrich’s proclamation, which, The New York Times notes, “is an argument sometimes used by the far right in Israel, but . . . is not the mainstream view.”